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Goals for 2014-2015 (Reflective Teaching Challenge, Day 1)

Today I’ve been challenged to share some of my goals for the school year. I usually struggle with big-picture goals – I prefer to-do lists (which maybe explains why I can get bogged down in details and forget the big picture). So here’s a list of some things I’d love to accomplish this year. Some of these are very achievable, others are maybe more dreams than goals or to-do items! It will be great to re-evaluate these mid-year and then again at the end of the year to see how much progress I can make.

AP Chem

Survive!

Use the Chromebooks in class

Make changes to our curriculum in areas where it needs to better-match the revised AP Chem curriculum (particle pictures, inquiry) and our new textbook (Masterton & Hurley)

Do new inquiry labs

Make or find screencasts for the big topics

Learn how to not procrastinate on grading lab notebooks so I don’t have to drag them between home and school. Figure out how to do them digitally?

Honors Chem

Keep our Google Site updated

Use the Chromebooks in my classroom

Make a Form or quiz for students to fill out after watching each screencast

Move towards Standards Based Grading?

Revise semester 1 curriculum so that it’s friendlier to self paced / mastery that I did second semester last year

Revise semester 2 homework grading – reflection, student choice

Instructional Tech Coaching

(This section of goals is very loose because it depends how the other ITCs and I shape the vision for this role in our district)

Create a comfortable and inspiring space for teachers to collaborate

Support teachers in our #ChromebookCrew (Spanish, Health, World Studies, English 9, Math) – revise a MINIMUM of 3 activities to use the Chromebooks

Find Health teachers out there who teach 1:1 or digitally rich curriculum